Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , apart from the project gaining him top grade in his A-levels , it also won two national science awards . |
| 2 | On Oct. 22 , 1990 , he had been ordered to be detained for 60 days in a military camp for sending a letter to Menem warning him that unrest in the army could provoke a " military rebellion " . |
| 3 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 4 | She 's expecting her second child in three weeks and is determined this time to have the baby at home . |
| 5 | He sighed deeply : he had insisted upon her accompanying him that day in order to enjoy the last precious hours of her innocence and happiness . |
| 6 | Fielding suggested calling it Good Money in the States and Bad Money in Europe , but I could n't see the percentage in that . |
| 7 | We are giving them maximum encouragement in this direction . |
| 8 | The new ‘ TORSEN ’ differential ensures that all the power is delivered to the wheels directly in proportion to grip , giving you sure-footed security in all road conditions . |
| 9 | Three days after his momentous innings , Stoddart hit 270 against Blackheath , and then , playing for Middlesex , score 98 against Gloucestershire , giving him 790 runs in five days . |
| 10 | Two days later , Herzog invited Peres to try and form a new government , giving him three weeks in which to do so . |
| 11 | But Carol Wilson believed that it was Branson who was ‘ stalling ’ over giving her any control in the company . |
| 12 | saying they all flower in the summer |
| 13 | The vote for the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano-Destra Nazionale ( MSI-DN ) slipped back from 5.9 per cent in 1987 to 5.4 per cent — giving it 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies — in spite of the fact that Alessandra Mussolini , the 28-year-old granddaughter of Benito Mussolini , stood successfully as a candidate for the MSI-DN in its Naples stronghold . |
| 14 | However , treating knowledge about language systematically and giving it explicit mention in the syllabus is not universal in our schools . |
| 15 | The vacancies came to light as the Department of the Environment announced a reorganisation of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , prior to giving it new powers in the ‘ green ’ Bill . |
| 16 | I guess Wilko will try him as a central defender — thus giving us some speed in the back ; if he gets a contract he will be a perfect match for David O'Leary IMHO . |
| 17 | We we he 's giving us free advertising in there for issue anyway |
| 18 | He imagined a policeman with nothing more to go on than a tiny , once brightly embroidered , label , a square inch of bloodstained , earth-stained , half-rotted cloth , hawking it round boutiques in Kilburn and West Hendon , narrowing the field , finally coming to an importers ' warehouse … |
| 19 | Hops thus contain both flavour and bittering components making them valuable ingredients in brewing . |
| 20 | Once there , and finding them nice places in which to live , the areas ' dynamism was ensured by the social preferences of this elite . |
| 21 | But Rotherham wo n't be making it five wins in a row . |
| 22 | She 's got no children , she was telling me last night in bed , there 's none on the way either . |
| 23 | Fair comment , but this week she was on holiday , did n't stop her and going and leaving them poor dogs in there barking their heads off and crying , for seven and a half hours did it ? |
| 24 | ‘ They became the rage and I was delivering them all day in the Rolls , ’ said Crawford . |
| 25 | We are also indebted to the Minister and the Whips for allowing us adequate time in which to adduce our arguments . |
| 26 | From the point of view of Spalding and Gonzalez-Casanova , the working class is seen to have been coopted by the political elite , offering them political support in the form of votes of union members and receiving , in return , favours such as improved wages or working conditions . |
| 27 | If she had nurtured any hope of forgetting him one day in the future his lovemaking had banished that hope forever . |
| 28 | Penda had taken Eadfrith , son of Eadwine , into Mercia with him after the battle of Hatfield , possibly with the intention of restoring him one day in Deira as a dependent ruler , but perhaps ill-advisedly put him to death during the reign of Oswald ( HE 11 , 20 ) — though conceivably prevailed upon to do so by Oswald . |